Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 - 151 sider |
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Side 76
... fire , and the living speaker expiring ashes , as if Gray recognized that one has greater life when well settled in a role prescribed by God than when restlessly devouring oneself with aspiration . Such a " fire , then , assumes eternal " ...
... fire , and the living speaker expiring ashes , as if Gray recognized that one has greater life when well settled in a role prescribed by God than when restlessly devouring oneself with aspiration . Such a " fire , then , assumes eternal " ...
Side 93
... fires , " is indebted to a Petrarch sonnet which Gray had translated into Latin . The context , however , is ... fire takes up the earlier curfew and blazing hearth , whereas Petrarch's image continues the familiar idea of the ...
... fires , " is indebted to a Petrarch sonnet which Gray had translated into Latin . The context , however , is ... fire takes up the earlier curfew and blazing hearth , whereas Petrarch's image continues the familiar idea of the ...
Side 122
... to determine if the cost is not too high . From this point , Gray speculates : Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have sway'd 122 JEAN - PIERRE MILEUR.
... to determine if the cost is not too high . From this point , Gray speculates : Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have sway'd 122 JEAN - PIERRE MILEUR.
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Grays Personal Elegy | 39 |
A Poem of Moral Choice | 69 |
Instability in Grays | 83 |
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anxiety of influence ashes live Bard blazing hearth cast one longing contrast conventional Country Churchyard critics curfew tolls death e'er echo eighteenth-century elegist English Elegy epitaph Eric Smith Eton College Ev'n fame unknown fate final frail memorial Frank Brady glory lead grave Gray Gray's poetry Harold Bloom hoary-headed swain homeward plods Horace Walpole human humble Il Penseroso imaginative Innocence Johnson kindred spirit lines literary live their wonted lonely Contemplation Lycidas lyric meditation melancholy moral mourned mute inglorious Milton narrator narrow cell object obscurity original pastoral elegy paths of glory Penseroso perhaps poem's poet poet's poetic praise present Progress of Poesy Proud quatrain reader rich and poor Richard West rude Forefathers rustics seems sense sonnet speaker stanza suggests syntax thee theme Thomas Gray tion tomb the voice tradition University verb villagers virtues voice of Nature Walpole William Empson William Marsh Rice wonted Fires youth